@SirSmugleaf We know the rumors were a false.
But if a company wants money, a decision to make something like that (with already in-hand development on other consoles) wouldn't be out of the question.
It's a matter of WHEN.

Like CAPCOM. They could just release new characters and things via DLC... instead they'll make an entirely new game.
And they could just release that entirely new game on a new console, instead they release the older version. But they can release the new version on there whenever they want instant cash if they wanted to. And stupid thing is: People will buy it. (I'm talking about SSFIV - in case that wasn't obvious)

EA isn't CAPCOM, but they do love them some money-grubbin' tactics.
It's not completely impossible that they'd release the trilogy if ME3 sells well enough on the Wii U... heck, it won't be surprising if they sold the Trilogy right before ME4 comes out (they're planning to go up to 5, if I recall).

Awesome game. Got the special edition of each when they first came out for the 360.

...though I want this game on the Wii U... I'm hesitant.
I don't know if they're going to suddenly shove the Trilogy on there a month after I decide to purchase it.
I already have the other games, but I love the integration of the GamePad and the Miiverse... but I don't want to have to repurchase it if a Trilogy suddenly comes out for the Wii U.

It would've been fine if they just released the Trilogy for the Wii U. We would've been willing to wait for that, EA!

Sentence: "Something I never knew I needed."

Seriously, I actually wasn't expecting much from it... but now I can barely push myself to play on the other systems because of its convenience as a home console. It's nice that I never lose the GamePad too... because I never know where my remote for the TV went.

You know what?
I hope it does well. So it'll shut up the naysayers. Because that's what we hoped for the 3DS, and we should hope the same for the competition.
I personally don't want it, but... that's because I never fell in love with Steam. And I have a laptop, so...

I don't think it'll compete with the 3DS.
Because the PC doesn't really compete with home consoles. It's its own thing. And if this succeeds? It'll be its own thing too.

Code of Princess. I already have two copies of it (to play multiplayer with the gf). I just need one of them now, and I desire one for on-and-off play.

Sending my other copy to a friend in another State~

Oh... and I might get Crimson Shroud (I didn't get it last time) and Unchained Blades too. :3
Good week for me, at least.

I just think it's not smart to sell your game on the App market for 0.99 and expect it to sell well on a (handheld) console for quadruple the price without it having a serious upgrade (worth quadrupling your smaller price).

Piracy or not, it's smarter to go with the cheaper option.

As for piracy: I'm just against it. Period.
I'm not even for homebrew communities. The stuff there's genius and awesome, but... well, I don't think its genius is enough to encourage piracy (which it does indirectly encourage).

@Brando67854321
I don't think he was ever in touch with gamers. I think he was in touch with his own style.

Honestly, I'm fine with the time limit. I hated it in the first one... because it was difficult for me and I hate time limits - but if it's the style of the game, it's the style of the game. As long as it fits perfectly, I'm fine with it. People hated Majora's Mask. People hated Super Mario Sunshine. But both had an amazing fan following of their own due to their distinctly different style.
Yeah, they didn't appeal to the mass market - but they were masterpieces in their own way.

Pikmin 3 won't be my thing at all. But I know it's going to be great for others.

Everyone needs a portable SNES. Obviously.

@CanisWolfred OMG I totally forgot to vote for Code of Princess!
It's not my number one... but it's definitely in my top 3... GRAH! headslam

@Ren Cheesy dialogue is part of its awesomeness.
I don't think that has to do with age - that has to do with taste. Most people, in every generation (sans a few in the 90s, 50s, and maybe a few before then that we never categorized), hate cheesy dialogues and jokes.
I just think it's charming.

@ueI They would if it's Mario Paint.
...we need Mario Paint for the 3DS and Wii U...

@ThomasBW84 I, for one, am fine with these placements.
I don't agree with them, but I don't agree with all the reviews and opinion portions of this site. And if I did, it'd be an entirely different Nintendo News & Reviews site, one that I probably wouldn't enjoy as much.

So I'll just say "Awesome list. Makes sense. Thanks for sharing." because I don't think enough people here said it.

@mieu-fire So you mean you like action games... where humans can run a marathon without ever tiring, ammo is in huge supply, and every shot and melee is easily done as if you're a well-trained and experienced veteran from a zombie war. Where it would make no sense that a zombie outbreak would happen because everyone's a goshdarn supersoldier.

... Not bashing on other games, but saying that ZombiU is a terrible game kind of calls into question what a zombie FPS really is. Other zombie FPS games? We could just replace all those enemies with non-specific monsters and it'd still make sense, and it'd still be just as fun. ZombiU? It only makes sense that they're zombies. And it's a darn great game - A great Survival Horror, where its intended limitations add to the gameplay and experience. Not so much an Action Shoot-Em-Up, but it never pretended to be.

@AlphaIchimoru Well, I tend to think OoT was a masterpiece in its time - not as much outside of it (when it came out and what it changed for its time made it unbeatable, but held up as its own now: it's a classic - but the golden standard has been raised since then). But like I said: It's my honest opinion.
The Last Story was great. Just didn't feel like a home run in every factor (even when being optimistic) for me.

I'd say Kid Icarus: Uprising is a masterpiece, and someone is definitely going to disagree with me.

inb4 "Operation Rainfall didn't help at all, don't encourage them"

EDIT: And yes, I'm quite glad it made it Stateside... love the game. Not a masterpiece, in my honest opinion, but a darn good and memorable JRPG.

@ueI 2nd player Wiimote, maybe. GamePad controls are solid.
They're going to patch it soon to allow Wii U Classic Controller support, so 's all good.

Well, I'm glad Kid Icarus: Uprising is still in the top 3.
I personally want it as number one, since I've had ZERO problems with the controls... But I know people did.

Just glad it's in the top 3, as it should be.

@soccer686 BRING OUT YOUR DEAD

...
Definitely getting this. Played tons of hours with my gf in VS mode. She was deadly in that game... To be able to play on separate screens (so she'd stop prepping for my armies) would definitely make me happy.

@Void
Because then there'd be an obvious head of the table.
Then people would pick sides, and play favorites, then we'd all shatter into our own little guilds, swearing loyalty to only certain authors and editors. A war soon breaks out, destroying the crops, the cultures, and the spirits. Entire nintendolives are ruined... all because you wanted a hexagon table.

SAAAAAAAAAALE

....... checks wallet

Just got it~
I already have another 3DS/DS cartridge case (as well as other cartridge cases for just the DS), so I'm good for now.
If I somehow manage to get more than 18 new 3DS titles in the upcoming year, I'm hoping they put it back in stock by then.

YES!!!
I already have the physical copy, but I want it in digital as well (it's perfect for on and off playing, so it's a bit of a hassle to remove and put back in the cartridge).
I also have two copies of the game (one was for my gf so we could play VS and Co Op)... so I'll be giving one of them out to a friend.
WOOOO~!

We want transforming bicycles.

As I'll put it: Anyone who has played ZombiU disagrees with the poor ratings.
They don't disagree with the REVIEW - they disagree with how low the ratings were put in comparison to the review.
It's as if they attempted to be a realist, but only came off as being a pessimist.

@The_Fox
Yeah, I was exaggerating. Was just huffed up.
But it's difficult to ignore when sites and magazines gave games on a console 6/10-8/10 scores for years, then suddenly drop it to 4/10-7/10 every single time. ...giving games like Wii Twilight Princess a fair score, but giving Skyward a terrible one - when TP was the one with waggle controls, and SS was the one with better motion controls ( "It didn't work all the time" - anyone who had half a mind knew how to make those motion controls work. ). Yeah, SS wasn't perfect either, but it certainly was better than TP on the Wii.

@CorporalPegasus
Funny thing about that: Disagreeing that COD is a good game still gives it a 7/10. Mayyyyyyybe a 6/10.
Not a fair comparison, seeing that COD are always top-notch titles. So hmmm... Disagreeing that Bayonetta is a good game is maybe a 6/10 (it really isn't everyone's type of game).

The harshest reviews on ZombiU ARE wrong. Because if you compare it with their other reviews to similar titles or similar not-their-type - there's a huge gap in the ratings.
This is the case of God Hand all over again...
God Hand was at worst a 6/10... but reviews went as low as a 4/10?? Horrible. No excuse for a professional reviewer.

EDIT: No wait, IGN gave God Hand a 3/10...... seriously wtf.

Whether not your cup of tea, spoiled by current gaming culture, or hatred towards companies: The poor reviews of ZombiU is VERY telling.

ZombiU is a great game, in my opinion. Outside of my opinion, its several flaws and not-so-greats make it at worst a "pretty good" game.
Giving it a poor review is like giving FFX a poor review.

"Whoah whoah whoah. FFX was a MASTERPIECE! Don't you dare compare that!"
Funny thing was, it wasn't everyone's cup of tea. You'll find as many people who hated the story, plot, characters, and even the battle system as there were people who loved the game.
At worst, it was a pretty good game.

ZombiU isn't everyone's cup of tea. It's not a "convincer title". It's not going to change the gaming industry or your life or anything like that. But it is a pretty good game - flaws counted.
Only thing that could drop the score horribly is the sometimes game-breaking bug near the end of the game. ...of course, rarely were other games given death scores for this.

@TechnoEA
It doesn't matter if it "isn't your sort of thing".
What matters is if you give a game fair judgment.
The ones who gave it crap judgment, encouraging others who have never played it and only judge games on score alone to think it's crap, didn't give it a fair trial whatsoever. Which isn't as bad for the game as it is for the reviewers. There's a difference between tastes and obvious blinded bias. Yes, everyone's biased, but when you consider yourself a professional reviewer - someone who allows people to see both the good and bad in a game - you're expected to throw aside your biased viewpoint and look at it from every angle.

Looking at every angle: ZombiU IS NOWHERE NEAR A BAD GAME.
It has a lot of flaws - it certainly isn't the best (except to the fans) - but it is no way the worst or as bad as people put it.
It's getting worse scores than several shovelware titles? BS.
"Oh, but those shovelware titles cater to a certain demographic."
The same can be said for ZombiU - and its quality in gameplay far outshines any crap game for crap audiences.

It's terrible bias. And it's terrible to encourage it.
There's a difference between a User Review and a We Pay These People Good Money To Hear Their Review - Review.
And people listen to the latter - which affects sales.
Their bias MIGHT come from not liking the genre - but it really is more likely Wii U sabotage. Even a non-conspiracy-theorist and a Nintendo-hater can see how obvious it is that certain review sites and magazines are out to kill Nintendo (whether by personal vendetta, or being paid by other companies - which we KNOW happens).

EDIT: Mind you, there are some reviewers who aren't that terribly biased in those sites and magazines (giving all games fair judgment)... funny thing was: they weren't asked to review ZombiU. They told the person who obviously hates Nintendo.

@bulby1994
I don't think anything can hide the extent of their financial difficulties.
I like THQ. :c

That's quite an update!

@Adam Normally I'd agree, but you mentioned Little Big Planet in comparison to NSMBU for online... LBP was slower, had far less player-impact physics (though they had lots of grabbing), and the physics of the platforming wasn't exactly friendly for quick runs. I've tried making Mario Bros. platforming-style stages in LBP. Played with people online. Either I slowed it down to fit it to the point where it was too slow and stale for everyone, or I sped it up too fast that everyone kept dying and didn't want to play the stage anymore - and when I finally got the right speed? It was "eh". LBP has a different platforming style from Mario Bros., the differences may be minute, but it really does have a huge impact on how fun is had.
You can go fast in LBP, you can have tons of hazards, and lots of pitfalls, but unless it catered specifically to the physics of LBP, it simply wasn't fun at all.
And if one player had a crappy online connection, they were just kicked out of any fun (You could say that's true for all games, but some games actually are still very playable even with bad-signal players. MGO, for instance, could handle bad signals - as long as the person wasn't from a different country).

That said, I'm sure they could make online work for NSMB games in the future - but LBP doesn't prove it can work.

...I don't want Nintendo Land to have online though. It's fine comparing scores online... but playing with trolls or those with terrible connection is not fun at all.
Yes, we can just stick with friends - but I hate how much that encourages playing in an absolute bubble — aka: "NEVER PLAY WITH ANYONE OUTSIDE OF YOUR FRIENDS LIST EVER FOR ANY GAME". Some games are awesome with random people, and the instant you encourage people to just stick with friends, the instant the random matchmaker games become filled with only pissed-off players and trolls... which makes them unbearable to walk into.

Thing is about Nintendo Land? Voice chat would be required to make the games almost as fun online as having the person next to you. And voice chat does not do well in random communities. . . . and that also encourages the international players to stick with their own nation rather than interacting with one another.
I think Nintendo Land is perfect for what it is. Future games can have online. That is fine how it is. Yes, it sucks to not be able to play the attractions with friends if you don't have anyone living with you or near you — so then the game's not fully catered to you and another game in the future will. But what it does cater to are those who have become obsessed with long-distance close-distance relationships... the ones who DO live near one another, yet for some reason only play online and call and text. And there's a large number of these people. Far more than you'd guess. A game like Nintendo Land discourages this behavior and forces people to be dragged out into the living room again.

@Molotov Goodness are you ever happy? Not saying you have no point, but it almost looks like you're a troll. Almost. Pretty close.
It's as if, unless a nintendo console or handheld is as powerful as a PC and as popular to 3rd parties as the 360 and as cheap as the original Wii, it can never be good.
What exactly are you looking for in this site? News to hate or are you honestly hoping for something that desperately that you wade through all this sub-par news you see here?

...

Back on topic: That's coo.
Glad I'm not taking too much energy from every place I plug my Wii U into (I take it with me out of the house - it's rather convenient for a home console).

@antipop621 I sincerely hope you brought it in for repairs...
Mine broke on the first day... couldn't read any discs... took Nintendo about a week and a half to get it back to me. Worked perfectly since.
At least the repairs are free.

@rjejr Didn't they say they were going to put Miiverse on mobile devices?

If there's any complaint I have for the Wii U, it's that they support Wii Remotes.

Wii Remote Pluses are so much better.
How is that a valid complaint? Try playing Metroid Blast all day then playing as the Survivor in King of the Zombies in ZombiU --- the normal Wii Remote's sensor feels so limiting........ :c

I just always assume that Japan got it last because Nintendo had a feeling the consoles had some problems, so they made everyone else beta test it for them. XD;

^_^ Anyone else seeing the tons of posts non-Japanese players are putting on the Monster Hunter Miiverse Community? Quite a number of them - almost rivals the amount of the people that actually own the game.

HAPPY BIRTHDAYYYYYYY

Huh... lots of retail up for download. Pretty cool.
Sadly, I've already got Scribblenauts Unlimited on the Wii U (definitely the superior), and Harvest Moon: ANB actually has some bonus if you buy it on the Natsume shop.
So... Awesome, but not for me.

HECK YES

I go on the Miiverse to ignore the fact that I actually have to push myself forward and risk all my loot and skills in ZombiU...

It's a good thing no disc-based Wii games had DLC. (Don't count Monster Hunter Tri's special missions)

It looks like something awesome you can store away into your vault of old systems and pull out whenever you feel like it.
No Wiiware, VC, or online? That's fine, because those will be in your newer Nintendo consoles, completely transferred, when you need more room for newer systems (beyond Wii U). Eventually the old services won't be used anymore so you wouldn't even have access to it on your old Wii (the one with online capability) as they replace it with a newer, better version.
So it's perfect for that.

As a CURRENT model? No, it's useless to those who already have a Wii, a Wii U, or are just going to buy the normal Wii.
But as a future relic model, I find it quite pretty and comfy.

@LordJumpMad
*with 3rd parties on Nintendo platforms.

@Tricoloryoshi
Holy crap... They can do that with Stitch and his cousins! That'd make sense!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MIYAMOTO-SAN!!!!

@akabenjy
Basically. Anyone who absolutely LOVED the Fable series (myself included) found that out after months of thinking PM was the main idea man of it.
He's like a glorified investor, if anything.

Mind you, his ideas and excitement for ideas are worth their grain of salt (the former being pretty good ideas, though the developers can't really accomplish them in time or in the fashion he wants them --- and the latter being a great hype-machine that actually sells games he's working on to any game design lover)... so he has some merit.
Though he can't really claim anything in the Fable department.

Though... I don't think he's ever really claimed being the main man of Fable. They just put him up there and he's just always talked big. He can't be faulted for that. If anything it's the misunderstanding of the fans, or perhaps the deception of the advertising, that can be held at fault.

But honestly: Look into the original creators of Fable. Geniuses, the two of 'em.

@Square-enixFan
http://amzn.com/B005NJ2UEW
You need to get that one. Lasts DAYS while the 3DS is shut and lasts 10 hours when the 3D and sound is on max. It adds bulk and weight to the 3DS (and removes chances of using the Pro attachment), but it is absolutely a GODSEND for traveling about and never having to worry about charging.

The company recently made a 3DS XL battery... so there's a good chance they'll make a Wii U battery.
If they do, I know where I'm getting my battery from.

@Bass_X0
Definitely agree on that one. However, if it regains the interest of those who only buy Nintendo consoles for "Nintendo games" (and who sell/abandon their Nintendo consoles once they've had their fill), then I'm fine with it.
Far too many people have complained about there being "no good games on the Wii" - which I've found that they weren't saying that as a solid opinion, but as a malleable opinion based on advertised taste (they just wanted the good games on the 360 and PS3 more than the good ones on the Wii - they'd rather have them in large, advertised quantities rather than having to search for them like many of us had to for great non-1st Party Wii titles).

It's also nice for developers to be more open to put their main titles on a Nintendo console. It may even encourage many of them to create new main titles (more consoles/broader audiences/varied audiences/more inspiration and options).

@HarmoKnight
They did say "for the moment"... Unless you're saying devs already have dev kits for the PS4 and 720.

Can't wait to see what they have in store for it~